Mark Millar Quotes

I have such fond memories of watching 'Doctor Who' when I was a kid and growing up, that if I've left anybody anywhere with memories as fond, then I feel like I've done my job.

One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.

I love Tinkle, it's really the most fun I've had in years.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.

As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making them, seeing them - is not something that could ever lose its pleasure for me. That puts them on a short list of things that eternally give me joy - love, family, food, movies.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

The little boy inside of all us men always loves something video game related.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.

Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Walt Disney was not a merchant of sadness.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do. So I used my imagination all of the time growing up. That's the main way I played. When we moved and I went to high school, I did my first play, and I was completely addicted to theatre. It felt like home; it felt natural.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.